On the recordJanuary 6, 2011
The bottom line is, anytime we pass a major piece of legislation, we should have the humility to acknowledge it can be improved--and we all do. We can make it better. We can make it stronger. But this totally destroys things that we have been fighting for decades to achieve on behalf of the American people: help for seniors with their prescription drugs, extending the financial viability of Medicare, changing and encouraging a new way of delivering health care services, moving away from fee-for-service, volume-driven to patient-centered, performance-based care, and then insurance reforms that put the patients in charge, which acknowledge that we are all in it together. This takes away the absolute unilateral power of for-profit insurance companies to decide whether your daughter or mine has health care.
